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dentin · 03-19-2012, 09:53 AM

Congratulations on your 60-70% ratio! Ours is at least 50%, and probably pretty close to yours.

Almost all of my promotional activities are focused on people who have never played a mud before. My conversion rates are moderate in some fields, and terrible in others. However, our userload has been growing, and not because I've recruited existing mudders.

I agree that it's extremely hard to get true newbies into muds, but I think the problem is that very few games truly put in the thought and effort required to do it well, not that we're a naturally shrinking niche. Graphical games have been available for a decade now, so it's not like that niche is growing exponentially; if our niche is shrinking at this point, it's because we haven't been offering enough, not because we're being pushed out by new technology.

-dentin

Alter Aeon MUD

03-19-2012, 09:53 AM	#10
dentin Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Home MUD: Alter Aeon Posts: 245	Re: Nice MMORPG MUDs-to-MMOs article Congratulations on your 60-70% ratio! Ours is at least 50%, and probably pretty close to yours. Almost all of my promotional activities are focused on people who have never played a mud before. My conversion rates are moderate in some fields, and terrible in others. However, our userload has been growing, and not because I've recruited existing mudders. I agree that it's extremely hard to get true newbies into muds, but I think the problem is that very few games truly put in the thought and effort required to do it well, not that we're a naturally shrinking niche. Graphical games have been available for a decade now, so it's not like that niche is growing exponentially; if our niche is shrinking at this point, it's because we haven't been offering enough, not because we're being pushed out by new technology. -dentin Alter Aeon MUD